Sweden finally won 8 medals in London beating the 6 expected The Olympic games ended last night and there is not much talk about its effects on Sweden. That not much is being talked as to how the who experience has affected the country's gaming and sporting arena. Sweden went in hoping to win 6 medals but it ended up with 8. That was impressive but though it won only one gold instead of the expected at least two.
Sweden was expected to be behind Norway who pitted to collect 10 medals but ended up with 4 - 2 gold, a silver and a bronze. On the whole the Scandinavia countries performed as follows
Country
Gold
Silver
Bronz
Total
Sweden
1
4
3
8
Denmark
2
4
3
9
Finland
0
1
2
3
Norway
2
1
1
4
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